On Wednesday 6th July at 14:30 CET Dutch broadcaster TROS announces its plans for the Eurovision Song Conest 2012 in Baku at a press conference. It is still unknown whether the Dutch candidate for Baku will already be announced. A national final with several candidates also is a possibility.

During last week's meeting of the Eurovision Song Contest's governing body, the Reference Group, an EBU proposal to return from full-show televoting to a limited televoting window after the last song has been performed was approved. The meeting was the first of the newly installed Reference Group.

Thomas D will be the president of the jury during Unser Star fÃ¼r Baku, the German selections for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. The singer of Die Fantastischen Vier is the new Stefan Raab. He decided not to be involved with Eurovision in Germany any longer after he hosted the contest in DÃ¼sseldorf this year.

In Sweden Sven-Olof Walldoff died this week aged 82. Walldoff was the conductor of ABBA in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974 and caught the attention by conducting the Swedish Eurovision entry Waterloo dressed like Napoleon. Watch the performance of Sven-Olof Walldoff and ABBA below.

Because not all information about the planning for the organization of the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 that was spread recently by other newspapers and websites was correct, Eurovision Song Contest Event Supervisor Sietse Bakker gives an overview of the current situation and planning.

The organisation of the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 looks to become a project of prestige for the host country Azerbaijan to give its image a boost. A new plan proposes to build a brand new venue for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in the Caspian Sea. The final locations should be decided by 20th June.

Some 70 million people tuned in for the Final of the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest, which took place on the 14th of May in DÃ¼sseldorf, Germany. The two Semi-Finals were seen by respectively 24,8 and 19,7 million viewers. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) reported that today.

The first participant for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2011 will be selected tonight. In Russia 20 candidates compete for the ticket to Yerevan, Armenia, where the competition will be held on 3rd December. One of them is Ekaterina Ryabova, who finished third in 2009 with Malenky Prints. # LIVE STREAM at 19:05

Dutch broadcaster AVRO has revealed the names of the eight candidates for the AVRO Junior Songfestival 2011 in the Netherlands. The winner of the Dutch selections will represent the Netherlands in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2011 to be held on 3rd December in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia.

26.05.11 . Italy first, Russia last with professional Eurovision juries

Not Azerbaijan but Italy would have won the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 if only the juries would have voted. Raphael Gualazzi received a total of 251 jury points for his song Madness Of Love, while Running Scared of Ell/Nikki only received 182 points and finished second. Alexey Vorobyov was last.